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About Community Digital Technologies

Data centers are being built in towns across America. Our mission is to build technology for the residents who bear the impact, not just the companies that profit from it.

The Rationale

Artificial intelligence has a physical footprint. Data centers require significant amounts of land, power, water and infrastructure, transforming communities across America. Community Digital Technologies makes this expansion visible to the people who live with it: every tracked project on one map, what is known about each, and a verified, private way for residents to register where they stand.

The Team

Community Digital Technologies is led by an experienced team that brings together experience in real estate development, architecture, blockchain networks, capital markets and operations.

Janine Yorio(opens in a new tab)

Chief Executive Officer

Janine Yorio has unique experience at the intersection of blockchain and real estate. As founder and CEO of Everyrealm, she has managed investments in more than 40 blockchain companies. She has 10+ years of experience in real estate investment and development and has overseen more than $2 billion in complex transactions including construction, redevelopment, tax credits, CDOs, CMBS and mezzanine loans. Previously, Janine worked at NorthStar Capital and served as Head of Acquisitions at Standard Hotels. She holds a B.A. from Yale University.

Samantha Okolita(opens in a new tab)

Chief Product Officer

Samantha Okolita has led the design and development of blockchain networks. Previously, Samantha practiced architecture at Henning Larsen and Bjarke Ingels Group and at WeWork's Design Innovation Studio. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan and a B.F.A in Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jaina Maher(opens in a new tab)

Chief Operating Officer

Jaina Maher has overseen complex operations for blockchain-based businesses. Previously, she worked in investment banking and debt capital markets at Goldman Sachs, MUFG Securities and Lloyds Banking Group. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross and has passed the Series 7, Series 63 and Series 79 examinations.

Mate Varga(opens in a new tab)

Head of Design

Mate Varga has designed successful blockchain-based products across Web3, crypto and real estate infrastructure. As Head of Design, he oversees all graphic, web and product design at Everyrealm. He holds a Master's in Media Design from Mome Budapest.

About Community Digital Technologies

Community Digital Technologies is part of the Everyrealm Inc. family of companies. Everyrealm is a technology company that has been working at the intersection of communities, blockchain and real estate since 2021.

Everyrealm is backed by investors including a16z, Coinbase Ventures and Galaxy Digital. Today, it works across chains, protocols and platforms and has deployed capital across more than 40 crypto and community-driven projects.

Community Digital Technologies draws on that experience to apply blockchain technology to one of the most consequential real-estate and infrastructure shifts of this generation.

Where We Stand

Community Digital Technologies is a for-profit company backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. We’re telling you that because you should know who is behind this project. Venture capital funds new American businesses in almost every industry, from consumer products to software to medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Much of that money comes from public pension funds that manage retirement savings for teachers, firefighters, and other public employees. You should know that, too.

Are we funded by data center operators? We are not.

Do we think the communities hosting data centers deserve a real say in what they get in return? Yes, we do.

How will that work? We’re still building it, and we’ll show our work as we go.

We’re building this for the people who live near proposed data centers, to give them a new way to organize and a seat at the table. If we get it right, we may build an entirely new economic model for what’s happening in the world today.

Some economists call what’s coming the “economic singularity”: the point where AI changes how our entire economy works. We are seeing it first with data centers. Each one begins in a real town with real neighbors, and many of them feel left out of decisions that will change where they live. This is only the beginning.

We believe this moment calls for a new kind of solution, and that’s what we’re building.

We take no position on whether any data center gets built. That decision belongs to the community and its local process. Our job is to make sure that process includes the people it affects.

We also believe America works better when we all come together. There is a way. But it’s probably going to look a lot different than anybody expects.